Temporary Solutions to Haitian Food Issues: What Others are Doing to Help and What You Can Do

According to various news reports, to head off the food issue, Preval has pledged to promote egg, chicken and rice production and subsidize fertilizer costs; the World Bank has promised $10 million in emergency aid and Venezuela's Hugo Chavez has agreed to send 364 tons of food, including chicken, milk and lentils. But in Haiti, even the smallest of economic fissures very quickly widen to swallow up any attempt at political equilibrium.

In the midst of all of this, Haitian prime minister Jacques Alexis lost his cabinet position.